Wednesday, December 30, 2009

12/30/2009
The nation is facing 2010 with a sense of hope that seems to have been lost for almost a decade based on surveys and more significantly, a kind of electricity everybody feels radiating in the air.

The nation became victim of the grandest of all deception in 2001 when, exploiting a manipulated sense of an immoral government, conspirators led by the self-righteous lot of businessmen, civil socialites and the Church hierarchy backed by the military, grabbed power from popularly-elected President Joseph Estrada.

Hope was replaced by a sense of resignation as Gloria, who was supposed to be the self-righteous conspirators’ anointed, turned out to be their evil creation that exceeded all the nation’s worst fears of a politician unfit to don the mantle of power.

At about the time when things were winding down, Pulse Asia and Social Weather Stations, the two respected and widely accepted pollsters published assessments of the 2010 presidential elections, two days apart, a fortnight ago.

12/30/2009
n an exquisite display of her knowledge of Latin, Queen Elizabeth II, in her annual New Year message to the British people, spoke of 1997 as an annus horribilis for the United Kingdom. That was the year in which Princess Diana, the estranged wife of the Prince of Wales, met her tragic death on an August night in a Parisian tunnel..... MORE

The ambush of a convoy of vehicles containing 52 passengers in Dingras, Ilocos Norte, killing councilor candidate Joen Canete, a barangay chairman and wounding seven others, including Provincial Board Member Robert Castro, confirms the presence of private armies in Ilocos Norte, Ilocos Sur and Abra who are politically connected..... MORE